On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:44 PM, John Marino <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/27/2013 13:20, Petr Janda wrote: >>>> Personally, I think smf manifests being in XML(i dislike) may be a >>>> problem with many users who >>>> are not used to reading and writing XML files. >>> >>> >>> That's one of the things I hated on SMF! >>> But I guess the configuration can be easily translated from XML to >>> text and vice-versa. >> >> C'mon, XML isn't that bad :) > > No, it isn't. I don't know where all this anti-XML sentiment came from, > but it's certainly fashionable lately. >
In my opinion it is! Or better, XML is a great (unfinished) language, but it forces you to have parsers and dom trees around in case you need to automate document handling. And this is not the way a Unix admin is used to do, at least in my opinion: cat, grep, sed and alike are not very suited at handling xml in a comfortable way (not saying they cannot cope with xml). Luca
